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AUGUST 12, 2011

Last week I spoke at BlogHer '11, a gathering of over 3,000 women bloggers. What needs are you trying to fulfill for yourself online that could be better met offline? One of the main reasons I go to BlogHer is to connect with old friends and to make new ones like: Beth of My Plastic-free Life. Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2.

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OCTOBER 17, 2008

For the month of September, Natasha Maw read and blogged in an effort to create awareness, and raise funds for Darfur. Check out the projects some BlogHers are raising money for. In addition to making an impact online, I'd like to see changebloggers meeting offline as well. Last year the campaign raised $62,925.12.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Yesterday, in preparation for a session I'm doing at BlogHer Boston , I created a quiz for folks to self-assess how much information overload was a factor. The question "Is the only time you're offline when you're sleeping or going to the bathroom? I got some great feedback and was able to revise the quiz - thanks.

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AUGUST 1, 2007

During the BlogHer Conference session, How to Turn Your Blog into a GOtV (Get Out the Vote) Machine, the incredibly inspiring Zephyr Teachout (former Director of Internet Organizing and Outreach for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign) talked about the importance of three things when organizing: * Have an online petition tool.

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Make it easy to find out more information about your organization, or project If your blog has its own website, separate from you organization or project's website, create an "About Us" page for your blog that describes the mission of your organization or project, and links back to its home page.

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JULY 26, 2006

I'm gearing up to do some live blogging at blogher and NCDD. At last year's blogher, someone said that live bloggers need to carry around a hip flask in their tool box! Because I've had such bad luck with wifi connections at conferences, I use blogging software that let's me save my work offline. publically.

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MAY 2, 2008

I was networking weaving between the offline/online. It was a link list I created on how to create web pages. Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing. I started Spiderschool which was my first sort of blog. A totally manual blog!

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